Baraka Books: 58 books
Rhapsody in Quebec
On the Path of an Immigrant Child
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Born in Hungary in 1975, Akos Verboczy moved to Montreal, Quebec at the age of 11 with his sister and mother, an esthetician, who learned that in Canada women were willing to pay a fortune ($20) to have their leg hair brutally ripped out. His story begins in Hungary, where at the age of nine he learned...
You Could Lose an Eye
My first 80 years in Montreal
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
“You Could Lose an Eye” is the expression David Reich’s mother often used for those she loved. It is the story of a family’s transition from the wretched oppression they left behind when they arrived in Quebec. They had only to learn new languages and adapt to a new political, economic and...
Soldiers for Sale
German "Mercenaries" with the British in Canada during the American Revolution (1776-83)
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
The British Army that fought the American Revolutionaries was in fact an Anglo-German army. The British Crown had doubts about the willingness of English soldiers to fight against other English-speaking people in North America. It also doubted the loyalty of the Canadiens who had only just been taken...
Parkour and the Art du déplacement
Strength, Dignity, Community
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Parkour, the art of displacement, or freerunning—whatever the name, this new discipline born in the Paris suburbs is rapidly being adopted by people throughout the world. Not satisfied to suffer through urban life, these athletic artists or artistic athletes want to thrive in it, all the while earning...
by Robin Philpot, Jacques Lacoursière
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Revealing a little-known part of North American history, this lively guide tells the fascinating tale of the settlement of the St. Lawrence Valley. It also tells of the Montreal and Quebec-based explorers and traders who traveled, mapped, and inhabited a very large part of North America, and “embrothered...
The Orphanage
An Autobiogrpahy
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Though both parents were alive, Richard and his four brothers lived in an orphanage for five years! It was in 1959, five floors of dormitories at fifty children a floor, with nuns’ cells on each floor. Richard recalls that, “as in all concentration-camp systems, daily life is dull and repetitive.”...
The Adventures of Radisson
Hell Never Burns
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
In the spring of 1651, a 15-year-old Parisian, Pierre-Esprit Radisson, lands in Trois-Rivières on the St. Lawrence River. Within weeks, the course of his life changes dramatically when Iroquois braves capture him. Canoeing across rivers and lakes and portaging over mountains, Radisson’s captors...
Challenging the Mississippi Fire Bombers
Memories of Mississippi 196465
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
In June 1964, courageous young civil rights workers risked their lives in the face of violence, intimidation, illegal arrests, and racism to register as many African American voters as possible in Mississippi, which had historically excluded most blacks from voting. With a firsthand account of the...
The Raids
The Nickel Range Trilogy * Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
It’s spring, 1963 in the “Nickel Capital of the World.” Nineteen-year-old Jake McCool is about to undergo a rite of passage—his first shift underground in a hard rock mine. But the Cold War is at its height, and Jake is also about to become a reluctant participant in a bitter inter-union battle...
Slouching Towards Sirte
NATO's War on Libya and Africa
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
A comprehensive analysis, this book examines all the justifications and myths about the war on Libya and methodically dismantles them. It delineates the documentary history of events, processes, and decisions that led up to the war while underscoring its resulting consequences. Arguing that NATO’s...
Discrimination in the NHL
Quebec Hockey Players Sidelined
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
Ever since Maurice Richard dazzled hockey fans, fighting his way to hockey’s summits, the issue of discrimination against Quebec hockey players has simmered on. NHL veteran Bob Sirois now demonstrates that unless Quebec hockey players are superstars they are less likely to be drafted than other...
Rwanda and the New Scramble for Africa
From Tragedy to Useful Imperial Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
Former UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali declared to author Robin Philpot that “the Rwandan Genocide was 100 percent American responsiblity.” Yet a more official narrative would have it that horrible Hutu génocidaires planned and executed a satanic scheme to eliminate nearly one million...
by Nick Fonda
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
Roads to Richmond is an unusual, almost quirky road book. Divided into four thematic parts and forty-eight short chapters, it works like a mosaic: the big picture is a moving portrait of a little known corner of Canada—Quebec’s Eastern Townships. The inlaid stones that make up the mosaic are small...
Hanging Fred and a Few Others
Painters of the Eastern Townships
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Quebec’s Eastern Townships are home to a higher concentration of artists than anywhere else in Canada. With his starting and finishing point being Frederick Coburn (1871–1960), arguably Canada’s best-known painter at the peak of his career, author Nick Fonda sets out to revisit his work and...